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These brothers created the first airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
100
This company created the Assembly Line Mass Production.
What is Ford?
100
This ism promoted spirituality, imagination, and dreams.
What is Symbolism?
100
This American composer invented the prepared piano and used chance operations for pieces.
Who is John Cage?
100
This Austrian composer was called the Emancipator of Dissonance and created Serialism.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
200
This French artist was an impressionist known for his water lily paintings.
Who is Claude Monet?
200
The first men on the moon were on this spaceship.
What is Apollo 11?
200
This ism relied on allusion.
What is Impressionism?
200
This Original American composer was the first American composer to gain international recognition.
Who is Charles Ives?
200
This Russian composer wrote Primitivism and Neoclassical music, including The Rite of Spring.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
300
This Spanish artist's painting “Desmoiselles d’Avignon” marked the birth of cubism in art.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
This event devastated not only America's economy, but other countries as well.
What is the Great Depression?
300
This ism is a method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another.
What is Serialism?
300
This American composer used a fusion of folk tunes and dances within 20th century approaches and created a body of music that was essentially “American” in spirit, including the piece Appalachian Spring.
Who is Aaron Copland?
300
This leading Impressionist composer referred to himself as a Symbolist and drew upon medieval modes and polyphony.
Who is Claude Debussy?
400
This French artist created a sense of three dimensions in his art by using depth of color.
Who is Henry Matisse?
400
These two wars included fighting between and on different countries.
What is WWI and WWII?
400
This ism included music with characteristics of early ages or of an early state of human development.
What is Primitivism?
400
This American composer went to Julliard and wrote music is very hypnotic, repetitive, fusion of Western and Eastern influences.
Who is Philip Glass?
400
This Russian composer was a child prodigy and was known for his string quartets and symphonies.
Who is Dmitri Shostakovich?
500
This president cleared Copland's name for being a communist.
Whos is President Eisenhower?
500
This war demonstrated 140,000 workers at the Tsar's residence Winter Palace with 1000 killed and 5000 injured.
What is the Russian Revolution?
500
This ism included: a. Consonant harmony b. Reiteration of musical phrases c. Repetitive rhythms and melodic fragments d. Gradual transformation of pattern
What is Minimalism?
500
This American composer that was the most popular minimalist and wrote the opera Nixon in China?
Who is John Adams?
500
This American composer wrote the first Minimalism piece In C.
Who is Terry Riley?
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